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In Search of the Okapi

CHAPTER VIII
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When they stand panting, with lowered heads and feet wide apart, we will bite at the softness of their bellies.' She licked her lips, and the tongues of the pack curled over their lips also.

So the young dogs were set to watch upon the brothers; and it came to pass as the old mother said--the brothers fought.

It began in play.

One swung his head at the other, and the other swung back.
"When a grown bull swings his head, O white boy, who picked me out of the sea, it is like the blow of a falling tree.

There is the weight of his head with the heavy horns, the arch of his neck, and the power in his shoulders where the muscles lie.


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